Are there sweet spots in channel growth???

[SweetsAndCandy]

Hi guys,


reading several youtube-forums and youtube-blogs over the last couple of weeks I noticed that many people report an increase of growth rate after hitting a certain channel size in terms of subs or views.

For example, some youtubers report that growth is much faster after reaching 100 or 1000 or 5000 subscribers or may be after reaching 1 Million views.

I am sure you already have heard similar Storys.

I am not talking about the general idea that large channels grow faster than small ones. I am talking about hitting a certain "sweet spot" resulting in a sudden increase in growth probably due to a sudden upgrade in search ranking for example.

However, in my limited experience such "sweet spots" do not exist. I don't think that youtube promotes your more after hitting a specific channel size. Rather, I think that youtube promotes your channel gradually as your channel growths.


I just wonder, what is your experience? What are your thoughts on this topic?

 

[Gaijillionaire]

All I've heard is 90% don't make it to 100 subs. Don't know if it's true or if they count sub for sub losers. If it is true that's only 10% that if consider a "real" channel with a following beyond just real life friends and consistent videos. Break that 10% more and obviously the higher up you go the smaller it gets. Only a scant few get suggested on the front page or sidebar. I guess the more you make and the more people see then the more it's suggested. Which matches what you say.

 

[OrkoTV]

you have to understand there is always a plateau when getting subscribers and growth. Think about the math behind growing. from 100 to 1000 is 900 subscribers needed. but when you get to the 10,000 sub area, to reach the next goal is an entire 100% increase of 10,000 more subs. The higher you get the further away the number is to reach. So when people struggle at to getting 100. Imagine a person stuck at 50k, there next goal is 100k which is an entire 50,000 more. All the levels between the reached goal and future goal is where growth looks to stop.

 

[TheDutchTexan]

If your content stops coming out so do the Subscribers. But say your content keeps coming and the quality is the same across the board (aka, the best you could do with the means at your disposal at time of filming and editing). The more subscribers you get the "easier" it is to gain them.

1 year -> 100 subscribers
2 year -> 1000 subscribers
3 year -> Looks like close to 3000 by the time June rolls around.

So yeah, it seems it does get "easier". (In reality, it is rather hard to keep posting videos for me, there simply isn't enough time in the day!)

 

[PictureFIT]

I think it can be a gradual incline of subscribers per day but you can end up hitting those big "boosts" if one of your video becomes very popular (eg shared a lot or shared by external sources) or goes viral. That's usually how channels that have been seeing a gradual increase in subscribers then all of a sudden they get a huge boost and ride the momentum. Take Hydraulic Press Channel for example. Relatively quiet before this year and then when they became a Reddit hit, they've gotten over a million subscribers in no time.

For me, I've seen gradual increases along with "hits" from external sources sharing my videos. The most important takeaway is that the rate of subscribers increases over time as long as you stay committed and produce quality content. Last year, I was averaging abut 5-10 subscribers per day. Around September it was up 20 or so. December I had a huge boost of 800 subscribers on a single day because it was shared on Reddit. After dwindling, my subscriber numbers were about 30 per day in January. By March, it was 70. Now it hovers around 100-150. Here's a snippet of my subscriber's per day chart:

 

[Olivea-Sea]

Hi guys,


reading several youtube-forums and youtube-blogs over the last couple of weeks I noticed that many people report an increase of growth rate after hitting a certain channel size in terms of subs or views.

For example, some youtubers report that growth is much faster after reaching 100 or 1000 or 5000 subscribers or may be after reaching 1 Million views.

I am sure you already have heard similar Storys.

I am not talking about the general idea that large channels grow faster than small ones. I am talking about hitting a certain "sweet spot" resulting in a sudden increase in growth probably due to a sudden upgrade in search ranking for example.

However, in my limited experience such "sweet spots" do not exist. I don't think that youtube promotes your more after hitting a specific channel size. Rather, I think that youtube promotes your channel gradually as your channel growths.


I just wonder, what is your experience? What are your thoughts on this topic?

I felt like I hit a sweet spot when I got my first 100 subs, it took a year and somehow the next couple of 100 took 2 week and the next a week! I kept going like that for a while! It was only because I stopped uploading reguraly because of school pressure that the subs decreased.

I'm fully uploading again since last month and I see a increase of subs but not so rapidly as that time though!